Ironically I believe flash mostly died for that as a founding moment on why apple would not support it on iPhones. Adobe only finally killed it after safari decided it wouldn’t support it
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Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoIirc, wasn’t flash deprecated because of unpatchable bugs that presented a gaping holein your browser security?
kautau@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Risky click of the day…
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
maybe that too, but mainly it was the move from desktops to smartphones and tablets, which Flash was (at minimum) not very suited for if it was supported at all
This may be the only good thing caused by the existence of iOS: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_Flash
kautau@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There’s plenty of criticisms to be made against Apple, iOS, etc, but “the only good thing” is a super generic and reductive statement. Proper sandboxing, app review by humans for people just hitting “install” the A chips leading to the M chips which are forcing competition, are all good things, and there’s more. Apple is overpriced, molds the market, fights against being a monopoly, takes advantage of international supply chains and people, that’s where they deserve the most criticism rather than their engineering specifically which has caused a bunch of really good tech things, not perfect, and not binary